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Victims or Villains Jewish Images: Jewish Images in Classic English Detective Fiction / Malcolm J. Turnbull. - Hardcover
Victims or Villains Jewish Images Portrayed as dubious moneylenders, underworld operatives, megalomaniacs, Bolshevik saboteurs, or unscrupulous war-profiteers, Jewish characters have surfaced in English detective fiction from the very beginning. Starting with Conan Doyle, and focusing on the Golden Age of the genre, Tunrbull uses multiple examples to trace the evolution of Jewish caricature in British crime writing, and examines f... Full description
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Proceeding from the premise that Jews, negatively depicted according to a range of demeaning stereotypes, are a feature of English crime writing between the two world wars, the author examines why this is so, with reference to recent debate over the profundity of anti-Semitism in Britain, and traces the evolution of fictional Jewish images in the c
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- PublisherBowling Green University Popular Press,US
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 0879727837
- ISBN 13 9780879727833
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages200
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